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Thursday1966 - Black Panther party founded in Oakland, California.
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Friday1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in, and becomes the first Black Supreme Court.
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Saturday1995 - Ex-football star O.J. Simpson is cleared of murder on this date.
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Sunday1971 - Elgin Baylor announces his retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Monday1932 - Congresswoman, Yvonne Burke, born on this date.
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Tuesday1917 - Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, born on this date.
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Wednesday1993 - Writer, Toni Morrison, awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on this date.
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Thursday1969 - Police officers and Blacks exchanged sniper fire
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Friday1991 - Latasha Harlins killed on this date.
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Saturday1946 - Singer, Ben Vereen, born on this date.
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Sunday1991 - Redd Foxx dies on this date
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Monday1999 - Basketball legend, Wilt Chamberlain, died at the age 63 on this date
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Tuesday1924 - Comedian Nipsey Russell born on this date.
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Wednesday1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize on this date.
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Thursday1991 - Judge Clarence Thomas is confirmed to U.S. Supreme Court.
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Friday1995 - Million Man March
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Saturday1928 - Author Lerone Bennett, Jr. was born on this day.
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Sunday1968 - Bob Beamon breaks World long jump record on this date.
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Monday1960 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta.
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Tuesday1942 - Sixty leading Southern Blacks issue "Durham Manifesto" on this date.
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Wednesday1986 - George Alcorn patents fabrication of spectrometer
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Thursday1936 - Bobby Seale, Black Panther Co-Founder, born on this date.
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Friday1947 - NAACP petition on racism presented to United Nations.
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Saturday1972 - Death of Jack Roosevelt ("Jackie") Robinson on this date.
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Sunday1990 - Evander Holyfield knocks out James "Buster" Douglas in the third round.
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Monday1911 - Gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson, born on this date.
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Tuesday1924 - Ruby Dee (Born Ruby Ann Wallace) was born on this day.
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Wednesday1981 - Edward M. McIntrye elected Mayor of Augusta Georgia
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Thursday1974 - Muhammad Ali regains world heavyweight boxing title.
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Friday1991 - BET Holdings, Inc. initial public offering on the NYSE on this date.
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Saturday1899 - W.F. Burr patents railway switch
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